>Homer and Shakespear at least have the advantage of being referred to all the time elsewhere. That's true for most of the works in the canon of works that are

>Homer and Shakespear at least have the advantage of being referred to all the time elsewhere. That's true for most of the works in the canon of works that are commonly taught in schools, people that didn't pay attention tend to miss them or be confused by them though. Every time we remove some work by Dickens or Shakespeare from our canon, we lose a bit of that shared culture.